This Might Be the Prettiest Footage of Surfing Giant Maverick's We've Ever Seen - The Inertia

Maverick's, in Half Moon Bay, California, is one of the surfing's most menacing and dangerous big waves. This edit shows exactly why.
Shot and Edited by Adam Warmington
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[@PEVPOV]

That last clip though... dudes a legend

[@MrTobinite]

Francisco Portella, had his rear facing GoPro going too if you want to see it. Pretty nutty haha. The wide angle really doesn't do that wave justice

[@brettf3]

@@MrTobinite Porcella. but thanks!

[@richardmason902]

@@MrTobinite kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKCvq2ivaKqNadE Here it is.

[@strahinjamandaric7654]

He had to lay his massive balls on the board for a little rest period

[@paulhetherington3854]

LDZENGEND-- Stone this, interior of, another interior-- Egyptian.

[@FarmerBenny]

That last wave with the guy who almost fell, then landed sitting up while everyone was cheering...THAT WAS AWESOME!

[@painiscupcake5433]

Francisco Porcella

[@golfhax]

i threw my hands in the air too! lol

[@albertogutierrez341]

Thank you from not using loud, hard rock, so-called surf music. I have surfed all my life, and whenever I watched surf video, I found loud music distracting. This is on point. I am stoked.

[@baddazzgarage2953]

Alberto Gutierrez im with you brother!! Epic vid im so sick of music norm to !! Alternative rock every vid its gotten repulsive!!✌

[@FrostedSeagull]

Alberto Gutierrez. . . . you said it Alberto. Beautiful music and magnificent photography. Whoever filmed this . . . I take my hat off to you.

[@baddazzgarage2953]

Frosted your right bro i said same thing just beautiful footage and stupid rock/alternative music gives the surfing world a certain image that us surfers are punks when alot of us listen to different music and have more peacful attitudes to life!! This is the best video ive seen with surfing it gives a real insight to the spiritual side of riding a board on waves!! 😊✌💙

[@mariosanchez9316]

Alberto Gutierrez loked the side

[@kelleyhice]

Hit the mute button and play something else in another tab while watching this.

[@jws2206]

Love the reaction from the one surfer when he watches the other guy pull in and go left.....

[@reddiver7293]

I was thinking he didn't know the guy behind him was going left and thought he had dropped in on him and made him get donuts.

[@thetommoody]

Finally got to Mavericks for the first time in my life this past July...there were absolutely NO swells but just being there and seeing the local monuments to the surfers who'd passed on and to those who continue to challenge these great waves was a huge moment for me. I hope to return one day to see the legendary 30-40 foot swells...until then, it's videos like this that bring the beauty of this place out.

[@chaoticfv]

I've watched many surf vids, and movies too, over the years and I found this to be a breath-taking cinematic Masterpiece! Bravo!

[@gratefulmind5288]

I used to watch Mavericks break back in the 80's when no one but, Jeff Clark was surfing it... That place is named after his dog Maverick! I used to surf Ross's Cove back in the day! Lower point lives!

[@lancejackson3618]

Epic

[@paulorientetheluffaranch]

Props to anyone who would even paddle out to it. Great footage.

[@BostonEmpath]

PaulOrientedotcom I paddled out in my over-sized bathtub once while my grandmother bathed me. The waves were gnarly.

[@MichaelRodriguez-tv9nx]

I'm a 66 old surfer and I love your footage. WOW! Gotta love Mav's. Great Job Bro.

[@markdinkel9006]

Waves- big ones should come in next month west coast and Hawaii

[@Delmarsurfer]

Love being able to take it all in in slo-mo. Well done!

[@travkatz]

this is one of the sweetest surf edits I've ever seen. It worked on every level for me. Captivating.

[@AngelYZ125]

100% fave surf video of all time, I watch it regularly as a quick pick me up

[@RichardFeynmanRules]

Fantastic video...the magnificent waves of Maverick's! -- and for me, the piano music was perfect! The very last ride, where the surfer *just* avoids pearling and then falls to his butt and then rides it out sitting down on his board with his fist in the air -- I'd be cheering too, if I hadn't wiped out on that monster! -- was a perfect ending shot. Bravo!

[@YourEddieBreak]

WOW! The guy that saved his ass at 5:50 is a bad ass!!! I was watching and started laughing and cheering and clapping all at once. What an epic save. And this video was pretty stellar. I would like to have seen more guys complete their wave, and still this was so beautiful, and the timing was great. Well done on the edit and the music choice. Great video over all. I really enjoyed it.

[@justtowatch111]

Creations Echo, yeah, me too on the last guy. Fantastic stuff, I would love to see at real speed. As it was I ran through that ride 5 times, still laughing and whooping!.

[@blessedingodslove7283]

Wow, watching this I feel like I can relate that to lifes problems, sometimes you gotta just conquer all your fears and ride the HELL OUTTA that wave. I hope others on here can relate. God bless you all & thanks for the great footage.

[@MrPipaluce]

Most poetic surf video ever made,shockingly beautiful, touching .well done

[@kaib7569]

How could you dislike such a beautiful video. Surfing is hard and filming people like that in the water takes hard work too. Also great editing my dude👍

[@dampaul13]

2:52 Just going for a surf with 113 of my closest friends.

[@tom7865]

most of them won't even catch a wave. I really don't understand why those guys even paddle out therw

[@tom7865]

@Spencer Phelps then why go out there on a custom $1000 surfboard designed to ride those kind of waves? they would be better off on a boat or jetski

[@MrDeadsurfer]

The ghost of Mark Foo haunts that wave.

[@zendean5207]

Mark Foo in over his head? Tha fuck? What the fuck do you know?

[@dannynysus]

1:55 "Did that guy seriously just go left?"

[@fynnwheatley1568]

people surf the left of mavericks look it up on yt its mad

[@mozdickson]

and the last dude riding it on his ass - and claiming it!

[@danceswithcritters]

he fell back on his board, sheepishly waiting for the assault, then realized he can ride it out. by the grace of nature.

[@symphonyfarm2009]

with out dying!! That was off the hook! I started holding my breath when he dropped in !

[@bipolatelly9806]

he didn't make the drop.... but he made the wave...ON HIS ARSE.... so fuck yeah, he claimed it!

[@sebastianmurach6157]

the best ride ever :-))

[@aburgheim]

Yes...... the best!! To put that at the end of the vid.... so cool or the head above the wave.... did you notice that one.....unreal.....so fucking cool!!!

[@goingoffgrid2849]

Did anybody follow the board going over the falls on that first opening wave?? Once the leash snugs up you get a glimpse of someone about to get the beating of their life. Wipeout of the year nobody noticed

[@gingercat777]

Yup, that looked nasty.

[@skatepark1ful]

yes it sure is nasty!!! it has happened to me several times---NOT AT MAVS!! and still, almost that big!! It really tests your breath saving skills because you are under water already and then get dragged and stretched and beaten up and then maybe a quick breath before the next whitewater hit. JUST GO RIGHT TO YOUR LEASH!!! THEN TAKE CONTROL OF IT AND GO UP TOWARDS YOUR BOARD

[@goingoffgrid2849]

Almost that big eh?? And you pull on your leash to surface? hahaha I live in HB and have surfed everywhere from the Ranch to Tiajuana sloughs for the last 30 years..... I usually just swim up since your so deep(& ears popping) you can feel which way the leash is pulling. But hey whatever works for you.... maybe a pfd would help if you go that big?

[@joshsmithson7955]

Going Offgrid I noticed it, he was paddling out too close to the break, guy went through white hell

[@oopsydaisy07]

Going Offgrid is it even possible to duck-dive a wave that big, and on that big of a board?

[@timothyskattum950]

I actually, joyfully cried watching that. Absolutely brilliant! In the early 2000s I played in those waters, rock gardening in my kayak, and although surfing was my true love and “reasoning” at the time, I was never brave enough or close to being good enough to venture out there in that giant green magic and terrifying swell.

[@FadeLeftGoRight]

Awesome footage. A beautiful chaos

[@jadventures6189]

Lou G hey beautiful chaos was pipeline

[@uprightape100]

That was beautiful.....thanks go to the surfers, film makers, and all others involved.

[@johnanthonycafe2993]

That music was a refreshing change with the angle into the tube and the slow mo footage.

[@luisgutierrez5818]

When it comes down it looks like the start of a waterfall truly amazing

[@Little.x.Little]

This video gets more epic every time I watch it. Top of the list for getting a the “feels” going. Well done!

[@calmstormambience1875]

dam the angle of the video footage is truly amazing. Hats off to the videographer as you feel like you are there.

[@williambremner9022]

Brilliant video! Superb editing and slo-mo speeds...and the audio is sublime. Two thumbs up The Interia!

[@markchurm7573]

Why have I only just found this - but so glad I did. The music is perfect. That last ride was epic and should go down as one of the all time greats - even if he was sitting down.

[@1hillbilly]

Nothing like surfing a peak with 50 other people.

[@Frankelsteinable]

geez, I hope that guy who went Left is alright and still living.

[@cristobilllumberg2473]

ha! balls

[@manulepo2857]

The look back from the homie going right was great. His view of the nut pulling in on the left must’ve been crazy. I imagine his gesture at the end is signaling for a ski to go yank him from the froth and rock that seemingly await. That’s what I got from it, anyway.🤙

[@poskikatika697]

Ol steely nads wonder where he disappeared to

[@kevinrichardson2151]

I hear that guy is still riding that left to this day......

[@salzburgsnow8056]

I didn't want it to end. Stirred my spirit.

[@reells571]

Very well done.

[@hurleycapetown8420]

40ft waves a few Johnnies underneath you,ice cold water and jagged rocks,sounds like a fun day out......if you absolutely crazy.Mad respect for these guys.

[@drewstahl957]

Im in awe. It captures the size, shape, barrel, risk, ride, surfer, wave. Just everything

[@haydnfischer4114]

Absolutely bloody epic cinematography. So freaking inspired and freaking frothed for surf season. Let’s go baby!!!

[@LurgsHowToGuides]

Wow that last take off was insane. In super slo mo you just know he's not gonna make it. He did the right thing just sitting it out & was probably so relieved he wasn't barrelled over. That is such a beast of a wave.

[@captainamerica3531]

Truly amazing. The piano music is mavs haunting intensity! A best ever film and short version. Next shop a million views God willing. Tnx

[@gregplanchuelo]

What a beautiful video and an amazing song. They blend together so delicately...

[@SanderAnderon]

remarkable, beautifully frightening...might have to rethink my belief, that downhill racers blasting 90+mph over the rock hard icy, uneven surface of the 80-something degree pitch at Kitzbuhel is the craziest/bravest sport we have. thanks for this gorgeous vid!

[@julianodutra75]

Gorgeous. It makes softly. Thank you very much.

[@peacequiet]

Wow,I agree,this is gorgeous filming

[@jamescameron5801]

its awesome knowing that huge waves like these live about a mile away from where I live.

[@mrquizical]

Fished there, crabbed there, walked around the point and climbed up the cliff to watch the event. The best place to see it is on a video close to the action. That video was soothing and, terrifying all at the same time. Extremely Good work. Thank You.

[@CanecaProductions]

Great Footage. The last drop was insane. Dude was lucky as fuck.

[@futronixindustries]

THE MUSIC WAS SPOT ON.... LAST WAVE ...INCREDIBLE , LOVE THE SLOW MO... MADE MY HEART POUND.

[@evanthegreat2332]

What a soundtrack ! Beautiful

[@robertmanley3472]

That last wave was the cherry on top. Wicked drop and revovery. Stoked

[@DorvipeRR]

Last dude was like "Witness me!!!!!"

[@zonkerr76]

Thank you for making my soul feel warm and purposeful!! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANTLY BEAUTIFUL!!

[@REDHEADSARETOPS]

last clips of vid... guy sitting down on board after several recoveries, either luck or supreme surfing abilities. fantastic. Too good of a vid to send neg vibes about bad choices, which anyway I saw none. Excellent footage mates.

[@fastgurrrl]

Transfixing. Gorgeous. Awe inspiring. Serene. Ty, Adam.

[@FretLevelMidnight]

You guys are certifiably nuts in the best of ways, and I'm stoked I get to watch what you do. I find it hilarious how little the general public knows in regards to how dangerous big wave surfing is, like you're just surfing on a glass of water, not a malleable, 3 story high pond that's basically working with gravity and inertia to kill you if you make one wrong move.

[@thejonathanrath]

Incredible edit, well done Adam. I've surfed for 30+ years, but when it comes to Mavs: no thank you!

[@jon630]

I love the reaction to the guy taking the left.

[@billyhughes9776]

Unreal,...beautiful work.

[@maurofranciscomandujano343]

Beautiful...

[@tarbender24]

guys just dropping in all over the place. amazing footage though!

[@TinShackVideos]

I know,crowded and no etiquette.

[@mikerafonemusic6177]

Mike Bailey Snake city! props to the guy who pulled it after fallin on his ass..he handled it!!!

[@DrezMedia]

Big wave surfers share waves you kooks, nothing unusual about it.

[@michaelchmiel166]

Common at Mavericks.

[@fritzkocher]

very well done! LOVED IT!!!!!!

[@jazzysnaps]

Brilliant footage, love the pull backs to give a perspective to the break, respect to anyone who has the guts to even paddle out there.

[@148.gforlife8]

That was killer Adam. Thanks man.

[@sharronswan4178]

That is fantastic. I wish I would have made a bigger effort to see Mavericks when I lived in Northern California to see these fantastic waves 💗

[@taxrelief9118]

So nice, so massive, so fluid, and absolutely beautiful. Thanks guys.

[@wsurfs]

AMAZING...THANK YOU...!!! Stay safe all who surf this majestic wave..!! God Bless and Keep YOU ALL..!!

[@cretefiends5015]

absolutely incredible... so heavy so beautiful that wave demands respect

[@alicehallam7949]

Not a surfer myself, but this is incredibly impressive film footage.

[@fergferguson7370]

excellent job..very kool..great sleigh ride at the end..chopan is the music

[@davecannon1523]

2:00 Yellow board's thinking "Did that insane bastard just go Left?"

[@LisaandStarVanMisAdventures]

It's cool that the guy at 2:17 was looking out for his goofy foot buddy.

[@f.demascio1857]

Lisa Crawford I can't believe he went left. Was that a courtesy or is there a decent left on Mavs? I've never seen it.

[@ccchhhrrriiisss100]

It really depends on the wave, the time of year and the (weather) front.

[@andwhy1245]

there’s some footage of Mark Healy going left somewhere......quite awesome!

[@gromgang548]

@@ccchhhrrriiisss100 The time of the fucking year? You have never stepped foot in the water I bet.

[@teddyknobel6087]

@@ccchhhrrriiisss100 mavs was originally a left, u wanna get barreled there u go left

[@dannynesen6783]

So much peace and chaos in one video, good work!

[@sdbling]

Never gets old.

[@n13roy]

Fantastic Footage Indeed......

[@seabirdjim]

Very well done film. Great editing. Weaves a tapestry of sights.

[@Mar--Mar]

That wave has such beautiful lines.

[@birdieb3950]

fitting music for stunning footage.

[@PhuongNguyen-rn5ug]

Amazing. So relax to watch but then look can be deceiving.

[@1945Jill]

Wonderful, wonderful photography - and surfers!

[@edmccaffrey1]

Classical music fits classical surfing, very well done.

[@colinolive9063]

Could watch this for hours!

[@icarus8471]

Someone finally made a surf video with appropriate music.

[@rodtemplar258]

loved the last dude taking a seat!

[@PROJECT4IT]

Oh My God!!!! I'm hypnotized. Thank you guys.

[@echo-trip-1]

That last ride is brilliant.

[@toned6411]

The music is perfect!

[@meyer7312]

Beautiful Mavericks, beautiful music

[@KevinRodriguez-pr1nz]

Wow! This video is a beautiful as it is powerful. Big thumbs up to the surfers and the editor. Wow.

[@AlleyTrashBoards]

That last ride was epic! He got so lucky. Now he can be the first guy to pull off the truck driver at mavs.

[@lukelosin9895]

Great clips and edit 🔥

[@HowardINo-cu4pl]

That last moment was amazing! xD

[@peterwinters8587]

Beautiful and last guy awesome

[@EnricoduPlessis]

Beautiful!

[@edwasterlain6215]

I just have to comment, this is awesome. I have been there a lot and to see this video it tames the chaos

[@clarkewi]

Gorgeous.

[@noahemail0339]

Works of art like this make me stop and appreciate that we live in a time where technology allows us to experience incredible things like this

[@noahemail0339]

Props to the photographers and creators 100/10

[@DansDailyVids]

Beautiful film , wow !

[@voixdelaraison9637]

This an amazing quality footage of the truly magnificent way of the spirit of what is to Be a big waves Riders

[@jerryhopper1685]

Awesome video thanks for posting

[@Old-Boy_BEbop]

5:51 one of the most graceful recoveries out there.